May 2013
8 posts
of cabbages and kings: Why I'm upset about Yahoo. →
custardandfish:
For many reasons, Tumblr is part of my identity. I’ve found a release, encountered incredible talent, fangirled, learned life hacks, and made invaluable friends. Over the past three years, Tumblr has become part of my everyday life. One of the brilliant things about it is the anonymity. It’s not…
Sorry. Not Sorry.: Just in case, my loves. →
bunnylali:
Alright so if Yahoo does in fact buy out Tumblr and decide to change everything about this site, I just want to make sure I say good-bye to everyone on here.To all my followers, all of EVERYONE on Tumblr who loves this site as much as I do. I guess what those people just don’t get is that Tumblr…
VIVA LA REVOLUTION
purgatoryhouseparty:
Everbody here on tumblr who lives near the headquarters of yahoo…
b-roke3n:
what if every single person on tumblr went to david karp’s house with “I hate Yahoo!” shirts on.
Clampdown: Pop-cultural Wars on Class and Gender... →
rogueish:
I sort of admire John Harris’s attempt to fashion an entire career by endlessly writing the “where have all the protests songs gone?” article. His complaint always appears to be that, as a man who chooses to listen exclusively to shit music, all the music he hears is shit. And this article fails to mention Girls Aloud, so its argument is obviously invalid.
April 2013
10 posts
metahaven: "Criticize the Old World in Content and... →
mthvn:
Monty Python once fantasized about a joke so funny it could kill; whoever heard it or read it would die laughing. “Jokes warfare” would spread as a deadly virus. Carl von Clausewitz famously stated that “war is a continuation of politics by other means.” The same goes, quite frankly, for…
WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD FINISH A PH.D. IN FIVE...
wheninacademia:
HAUTE POP: Notes Towards The Truly Augmented Self →
hautepop:
1. OK, Cupid: giving your love life to Google Glass and the hive mind
Tim Maly, Verge - 11 April 2. Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share
Josh Davis, Wired - 28 March cc Charles Green (2000), Doppelgangers and the Third Force: The Artistic Collaborations of Gilbert &…
“The revolution starts in the ATOS smoking area” -... →
novaramedia:
Originally posted at Libcom.org by ‘Ramona’ in April 2013
This is an amazing piece. Read it. Now.
“Processed World also uses humor because it serves to distance our project from...”
– Processed World Collective, “Just the Facts, Ma’am: An Autobiography” in Technoculture, ed. Constance Penley and Andrew Ross (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 1991), 231-246.
Compare groups like Anonymous, DSG, Class War et al who deploy humour in their politics.
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March 2013
8 posts
Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the... →
immolator:
“The so-called creative class of intellects and artists was supposed to remake America’s cities and revive urban wastelands. Now the evidence is in—and the experiment appears to have failed”
(seriously though - this is a good insight into the kind of grotesque bullshit that has guided urban development over the last decade or so. extensive studies of cities and their challenges...
set yourself aflame: slavoj zizek on wrestling →
immolator:
some possible critiques (with a little help from friends!):
my god. can’t you see? in the same way you get coffee without caffeine, beer without alcohol, ice cream without fat, they will try to make this into a harmless wrestling show
you have this man, Triple H, who says “it is time to play…
The obfuscation of culture (how to hide your shit... →
kenyatta:
One of my favorite bits from Jacob’s post on “seapunk” was this bit about keeping subcultures “sub”:
It is an impossibility for a subcultural style to be “owned”. Sub-culture exists when gazed at by mass-culture. The only way to ensure that your aesthetic is not going to become used by others is to never share it with anyone. Another approach is to protect your aesthetic with...
February 2013
12 posts
Ask an autonomist what her favourite film is and the only correct reply is Elio Petri’s masterwork La class operaia va in Paradiso (The Working Class Go To Heaven, 1971). The recently published collection of Petri’s writings in English translation reminds us that the piece was exceptionally badly received at the time by the Left, including the extra-parliamentary left that it would...
“Trotsky himself is really incidental to all this. His actual deeds and policies...”
– Sam Kriss, Forget Orwell (via fourwindsshotgun)
This essay is pretty much a must read, not that I agree with it all.
Clockwatchers - Or A Proletariat Sex And The City...
Spoilers follow for the film Clockwatchers
Trigger warning: self-harm, eating disorders.
Though marketed as a quirky office comedy, Clockwatchers (1997) is a low key film, marked by a deep melancholy. It is at its heart a serious meditation on the realities of contemporary work - in this case, temping. Clockwatchers concerns the lives of four female temps in an unknown US city working in an...
set yourself aflame: For 18 months, you have been... →
immolator:
but yeah, i had to stop Zizek Ebooks. not that verso or him threatened to sue me or anything. but… 1) i was running out of material. there’s over 5000 tweets from that account which are all (but one or two) directly lifted from zizeks work or work about zizek. 2) i thought about keeping it…
January 2013
14 posts
“We’re definitely moving toward “control” societies that are no...”
– Gilles Deleuze in conversation with Antonio Negri.
Commonplaces: NOVARA →
piercepenniless:
As many of you know, I co-organise (co-host? co-direct?) Novara with Aaron Peters. We spend an hour on the radio (Resonance FM) talking politics, communism, economics, direct action, philosophy, theory (&c.) each week, frequently with other people. We’ve just launched our excellent-looking…
DIE GROSSE WEIGERUNG: David Bowie and West German... →
thegreatrefusal:
David Bowie’s new song has much-commented links to his so-called Berlin trilogy era of Low, Heroes and Lodger, and for me the lyrics reminded me of West German activism - Heroes was of course released during the German Autumn of October 1977.
A man lost in time near KaDeWe Just…
set yourself aflame: i really am just sick of... →
immolator:
i really am just sick of having to engage with these apparently leftist british writers on twitter. in the face of more bullshit from commentators they’ve renewed some of their most vulgar practices. i have to be told over and over again how my own politics and experiences are just “hating the…
set yourself aflame: hey as somebody who was born,... →
Important post here viz. media representation that checked a few over zealous “just ignore them, they aren’t important” impulses I’ve had in the past. Read it.
immolator:
hey as somebody who was born, raised and continues to live in a town which is constantly attacked, stigmatized and misrepresented in a variety of media outlets i can only react in disgust when a...
extermination without pity: On financial modelling... →
Amazing post. Some of the best writing I have read about financialisation for some time.
withoutpity:
Arbitrage is defined as any technique to profit from differences in price between identical assets in different markets. At its simplest, if an asset is priced at £1000 in one country and at £1200 in another, I can buy in the cheaper market and sell in the more expensive and profit from...
“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to...”
– PostBourgie
Yes yes yes a thousand times yes. Seriously.
(via meow-sense) (via hayrr)
“Representation fails to capture the affirmed world of difference. Representation...”
– Gilles Deleuze, “Difference and Repetition,” p.55–6 (via lovevoltaireusapart) 